Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.
From Esa-Pekka Salonen
I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.
I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.
I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.
The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.
The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.
This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.
The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.
I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.
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